In Brief
A Searchable Database for Every Bob Ross Canvas from Joy of Painting
He created 403 paintings for the popular TV series, and now you can search through them.
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Announcement
"Planning for the Future: Place Breaking to Place Keeping," a Conversation at Moore College of Art & Design
"Planning for the Future" examines efforts underway in three Philadelphia neighborhoods to productively combine approaches from art and urban planning to make neighborhoods better.
Art
Incorporating Photography into Art History, Starting with August Sander
An exhibition at Hauser & Wirth uses the theme of seriality to drag photography out of isolation and into the larger framework of art making.
Art
A Menagerie of Delicate Fabrications and Intimate Drawings Enliven an Apartment Gallery
Aidan Koch’s minimalist storytelling is as soft as it is powerful.
Books
The iTunes Terms and Conditions as an Eclectic Comic
With appropriative text and visuals, the book is full of single-page mash-up vignettes of obtuse techno-speak and familiar graphics.
Art
In Miami, a Museum Attempts to Bring Teens and Cops Together Over Art
Art Detectives, a partnership between the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Miami-Dade Police Department, and two community organizations that launched last month, may be the only program of its kind in the US.
Art
How Art Secured American Banknotes for 150 Years
The Grolier Club is exploring the overlooked art of American security engraving, in which the strength of an artwork correlates to the security of the banknote or bond it's printed on.
News
Iranian Gallery Drops Out of AIPAD Photo Fair Over Trump’s Travel Ban
The Tehran-based Ag Galerie had planned to show Bahman Jalali's arresting photographs documenting the Iran–Iraq war in the 1980s.
Art
A Documentary About Latin Boogaloo Screens at El Museo del Barrio
The documentary We Like it Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo, which traces the rise of the musical movement, is screening March 31 at El Museo del Barrio.
Opinion
George W. Bush's Paintings Cannot Redeem Him
A piece in the New York Times about the former president's book of paintings is part reputation rehab, part art review, and part audition for the job of Bush’s headstone writer.
Art
Chuck Berry and the Modernist Fable of “Johnny B. Goode”
The jackhammer chatter of the song's opening riff lets us know that the pastoral is past.
Art
From a Jade Suit to Bronze Dildos, Ancient Tomb Luxuries of the Han Dynasty Elite
Even in death the Han Chinese thought that life continued in its own way so they buried the deceased with luxurious objects that continue to impress.